The Voice of the Turtle. Jermyn Street Theatre.
In the three decades between 1925 and 1955 Welsh-born writer John Van Druten enjoyed significant if fleeting success as a purveyor [...]
Chilli Con Carne. Lion and Unicorn Theatre.
“I’m excited to see you but I’m effing furious too” says grieving 28 year-old schoolteacher and short-story writer Ash. Well, what [...]
George. Omnibus Theatre.
The ninth annual 96 Festival, Omnibus Theatre’s month-long “celebration of queerness and theatre” kicked off with Joe Carstairs, a verbose, polemical [...]
The Secret Garden. Regent’s Park Outdoor Theatre.
The trigger warnings for Holly Robinson and Anna Himali Howard’s version of Frances Hodgson Burnett’s much loved children’s novel The Secret [...]
The Dao Unrepresentative. Soho Theatre.
The show blurb for Daniel York Loh’s semi-autobiographical The Dao Unrepresentative British Chinese Experience describes the work as a “psychedelic gig-theatrical [...]
Wet Feet. Union Theatre.
“You’re a new gay aren’t you” self-confident, twenty-something Nathan tells his uninvited guest Franko. The latter has gate-crashed Nathan’s private room [...]
Any Day Now. Etcetera Theatre.
Evie, the protagonist of Martia Dimmer’s debut one-woman show Any Day Now, ruminates about death, hers and other people’s, at least [...]
Hole. Old Red Lion Theatre.
“It’s a story about hunger” the eponymous Hole, who has been diagnosed with an eating disorder, tells us at the outset [...]
The Rest Of Our Lives. Battersea Arts Centre.
The entranceway trigger warning for The Rest Of Our Lives, George Orange and Jo Fong’s mash-up of dance, physical theatre, stand-up, [...]
Being Mr Wickham. Jermyn Street Theatre.
Adrian Lukis’ one-man show Being Mr Wickham has, like Jane Austen’s titular character from Pride and Prejudice, been on a peripatetic [...]
The Hunger Artist. Etcetera Theatre.
Franz Kafka’s trademark absurdity, sense of alienation from society, and all-pervading tone of anxiety are omnipresent in his final published short [...]
Joe Carstairs. Omnibus Theatre.
The ninth annual 96 Festival, Omnibus Theatre’s month-long “celebration of queerness and theatre” kicks off with Joe Carstairs, a verbose, polemical [...]
The Work We Do. White Bear Theatre.
Cerys Jones agreeable comedy drama The Work We Do sees an odd-couple of voice actors meet for the first time at [...]
Houdini’s Greatest Escape. King’s Head Theatre.
Feargus Woods Dunlop’s spoof detective comedy Houdini’s Great Escape sees the famous escapologist and wife Bess on a pre-first world war [...]
So Help Me Dog. Hens and Chickens Theatre.
Writer Dean Stalham used to be a career criminal. In 2002 he was sentenced to three and a half years in [...]
That’s a Bit of Sheer Luck. Old Red Lion Theatre.
It is elementary to see why Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes attracts so many parody writers. Disney’s done it expertly with The [...]
Lie Low. Royal Court Theatre.
First seen at Dublin Fringe in 2022, Ciara Elizabeth Smyth’s pitch dark and deeply unsettling absurdist comedy-drama Lie Low finally makes [...]
Don’t Take The Pith. Drayton Arms Theatre.
Husband and wife writer Peter Rae and director Helen Bang garnered solid reviews and a Best Comedy London Pub Theatre Awards [...]
Girls Really Listen to Me. Pleasance Theatre.
“It’s boring being hotter and smarter than all of your classmates” 16 year-old rich kid Maddie tells us between selfies and [...]
Far From Home Close To Love. Etcetera Theatre.
In Far From Home Close To Love young German writer and performer Benjamin Kelm tells the intensely personal story of a [...]
The Tailor-Made Man. Stage Door Theatre.
Claudio Macor’s tale of pre-war Hollywood homophobia The Tailor-Made Man had its first stage outing close to 30 years ago. Since [...]
Stop Trying To Look At. Canal Café Theatre.
In earlier iterations writer and performed Jacob Grunberger’s autobiographical single hander Stop Trying To Look At… had the words My D**K [...]
Kunstler. White Bear Theatre.
“I’m aware I’ve offended people” says the eponymous protagonist William Kunstler in an uncharacteristic moment of reflective understatement. There is a [...]
Multiple Casualty Incident. The Yard Theatre.
Much admired British Palestinian writer Sami Ibrahim likes to mix up his genres if not necessarily his subject matter. His Olivier-nominated [...]